The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-31
BADGER NOTES.

| THE Eau Claire authorities have
voted the Osgood Furniture Company,
| OF Chicago, $50, 900 to locate its iac-
tory 10 that city. the establishment
| To employ $50 bands: The CONNER
cial Syndicate has also donated the
company SO, 500 aud five acres OF
land.
THE William Ljstman Mill Conn
pany, of La Crosse, has beea incor-
ated with capital o. 500, 900 The
object is TO operate q fiourjBg mill.
THE charge against County Clerk
Gafuey, OF Ashland, have been with
drawn.
II. W. HUDSON, a brakeman, at
tempted suicide on the 22d at the
Commercial Hotel, Ashland, by tax
ing morphine, but wss saved by ply
sicians. lie had been on q spree.
ENGINEER BUcKLASD. OF La Cross,
was killed in q collision at Lakefieid,
on the Southern Minnesota Division
OF the Chicago, Milwaukee Il So. Paul
RailgRy. A regular freight stopped
on the majn line and Was run into by
special IN 4 saowstorm that madeit
Impossible for tue engineer to see the
obstruction. Engineer Searles, OF La
Crosse, was injured in the wreck.
DURING the past season the govern
ment has expended some $50, 600 in
building 6ams aud making other inn
provsmeuts on the Mississippi River
in tbs vicinity OF Fountain City. Ii
WAS recently made known thst one or
these dams had been under mined and
greatly damaged by reason OF being
| tampered with by some scOundrel.
Deputy Marshal Truesdell has traced
! the vandal aud placed the case before
| the grand jgry at Madison.
THE Northwestern Fuel Company
o. Milwaukee, mas brought suit
against Wolf 4 Davidson, OF that
| city, for damages caused by the
launch OF the steamer ". II. Wolf, last
summer. l. viii be remembered that
a scaffold on the Fuel CompsDy 8
wharf, on which Il number OF people
| bad conqreyated to witness the launch.
| was wrecked, and the occupants
thrown into the water.
EARLY on the morning of the 2lst a
| special traia on the $500" road, car
rynQ the officers and directory OF the
| company, ran into q south-bound
| freight train on the Wisconsin Central
road at Prentice Crossing. Two cars
were demolished, aud, although the
psCial train was travelling at d very
ieh rate Of speed, no one was nurt.
JAMES Mccoy, q saloon keeper, was
killed 10y a. falling tree, near Birch,
| Ashland County.
AWIscONsN CENTRAL official Informs
the Ashland News that union depot
will be built a. Ashland next spring.
! DENNIS y. LAwLER, q pioneer OF
| Ridgeway, Iowa County, is dead at
age OF So years. He leaves an estate
valued at 10000.
FROM the tact that Chiei Architect
Schick OF the Burlington Road, will
take up his residence IN La Crosse in
the spring, people in that city believe
ii e general shops OF that company
viii be huilt IN La Crosse.
| WONG CHIN Foo. the Chinese lawyer,
will lecture before the State University
on January 12.
4 BILLIARD table occupies a corner
OF the Executive mansion end Gov.
Rusk spends an hour day at three
bail Caroms.
! Six farmers, residing in La Crosse
| County, are defendants N q suit for
5000 brought to recover the value OF
corn which it is alleged the defendants
stole fro II the plaintiff.
TIE board OF regents of the State
| University has directed Prof. w. A.
/ Henry to add to the short course in
agriculture two hours instruction dai
IS, in the university machine shop,